Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hammerhead

3 senses of hammerhead

Sense 1
dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead -- (a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence)
       => stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock -- (a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!")

Sense 2
hammerhead -- (the striking part of a hammer)
       => head -- (the striking part of a tool; "the head of the hammer")

Sense 3
hammerhead, hammerhead shark -- (medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous)
       => shark -- (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)